Things Done Changed Rhetorical Devices

The Hip-Hop genre never fails to deliver personal messages to fans across the world. These topics can widely vary from one another: Violence, the scary insights of gang life, and tense race issues that are still going on to this vary day. One of such songs is Notorious B.I.G’s “Things Done Changed”. A song that not only captured the entire the aspects of the ongoing struggles of violence in 1993, but how the song became a national hit to the people. The song itself shocked the nation, including schools who taught this song to students. Notorious B.I.G. in the hip hop community never fails to draw in some inspiration from his real life to song. Throughout his entire life as mentioned in this song, isn’t what it seems to be in today’s world. This song is a message of life today hasn’t changed with the violence unlike back in the days. To start out, the

still has the lyrical groove as did his many hit songs. Except this song in particular style draws in his own life from his past to when he wrote the song in 1993. When B.I.G. wrote this song in 1993, he states such experiences to violence and social changes relating to this madness, such as the following lyric: “Back in the days, our parents used to take care of us, look at em now, they even scared of us” (B.I.G. 2). This lyric demonstrates one of the problems that most people has faced like B.I.G. where children in 1993 are now violent and ungovernable unlike back then. The children have tendencies now to go in head first, ask questions later. Moreover, since most children want their voices to be heard, they will go as far as to provoke violence just so they can make their point ‘bloody’ clear. However, their voices can not only